Category: Culture
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LifeWay to close bricks and mortar stores
News broke yesterday that LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention has decided to close all 170 of its bricks and mortar stores. Christianity Today has the story. The news comes after the publishers retail division posted another year of losses
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No one deserves to be treated this way
The truth is that all of us will need a little help along the pathway of life. It’s also true that some of us are fortunate to have families who can help. Others aren’t so fortunate so let’s have a little more compassion and give others the benefit of the doubt. My path of healing […]
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Greenway becomes president of SWBTS
Adam W. Greenway becomes 9th President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
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Traditional sexuality is not a panacea
Fidelity to the historical teaching on human sexuality is not a silver bullet. We do the church as disservice by suggesting that fidelity here is the linchpin on which church growth depends.
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In the face of our racism fly to the cross
We are not used to placing race in the arena of things in which God is calling us to confess and repent. Like the fish white Christians fail to easily perceive that the ecosystem in which we thrive is toxic for others. If Jesus is to be taken seriously, however, we cannot approach him in faith unless and until we are willing and enabled to see that have made our whiteness something of an idol.
J. B. Gissing 